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Bursting the College Bubble

Bursting the College Bubble

FromThe Daily


Bursting the College Bubble

FromThe Daily

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
May 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Universities across the United States have long prided themselves on bridging the differences between their students. How the coronavirus has instead reinforced inequalities that campus life can hide. Guest: Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter at The New York Times, who spoke to faculty and students at Haverford College, a liberal arts school near Philadelphia. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: When the students were sleeping in the same dorms and eating the same dining hall food, the disparities in their backgrounds weren’t as clear as they are over video chat. Here’s a peek inside two students’ vastly different worlds.
Released:
May 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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